What Would the End of Football Look Like? (2012)

Re:What Would the End of Football Look Like? (2012) by untog on Saturday October 31, 2015 @05:46PM (#10484346)

Also tackles above the waist are forbidden. In American Football you can pretty much just throw your entire body anywhere, with unsurprising results.

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Re:What Would the End of Football Look Like? (2012) by jamessb on Saturday October 31, 2015 @08:06PM (#10484805)

It is tackles above the shoulder (not waist) that are forbidden (along with striking an opponent with a stiff-arm whilst tackling, tripping, picking up and dropping a player etc.).

Law 10.4 specifies what is considered 'dangerous play': http://laws.worldrugby.org/?law=10.4

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Re:What Would the End of Football Look Like? (2012) by srtjstjsj on Saturday October 31, 2015 @06:17PM (#10484448)

this video disagrees with your claim about rugby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1Mt0LdCfY

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Re:What Would the End of Football Look Like? (2012) by untog on Sunday November 01, 2015 @01:13AM (#10485612)

Fouls happen. I don't mean to diminish that, but when the base of the game is to disallow bad tackles then there will be far fewer incidents of bad tackling.

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Re:What Would the End of Football Look Like? (2012) by Synaesthesia on Sunday November 01, 2015 @01:37AM (#10485550)

You can't tackle someone around the neck in rugby or too high, it's a foul called a "high tackle"

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